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Re: trouble with the boot-block..



On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote:

> However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI
> drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that
> I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file system.  
> 
> After re-installing both OS's from scratch several times I've
> come to the conclusion that something is causing the master boot
> track to always throw me into the re-install RAM-fs of Linux.
> 
> I'd be much obliged for some work-arounds here.  Am I using
> the wrong rescue disk or what?

Are you booting from the rescue floppy disk.  If yes, then indeed you
will be using the RAM-fs.  You can either use the boot floppy disk or
LILO installed on the hard disk.

-- 
Jean Pierre



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